Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Compare Intel Core X-series 14 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Price

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$ 300.00

$ 159.00 significantly less expensive

$ 459.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points

1% slightly better overall score

5169 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points

35% slightly better gaming score

4558 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points

5431 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points

5595 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points

146% significantly higher Blender score

106.21 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9233 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4845 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1299 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

913 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5055 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

944 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

34% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

85 W

94% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

10% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

324th of 1,089

330th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-7940X vs Xeon E5-2630 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-7940X performs better than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2630 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 v3 outputs less heat than Core i9-7940X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.